The table below shows the traditional listing of the Sanskrit consonants with the (nearest) equivalents in English (as pronounced in General American and Received Pronunciation) and Spanish. Each consonant shown below is deemed to be followed by the neutral vowel schwa (/ə/), and is named in the table as such.

Sanskrit in modern Indian and other Brahmi scripts. May Śiva bless those who take delight in the language of the gods. (Kalidasa)

Numerals

The numbers from one to ten:

éka-

dva-

tri-

catúr-

páñcan-

ṣáṣ-

saptán-

aṣṭá-

návan-

dáśan-

The numbers one through four are declined. Éka is declined like a pronominal adjective, though the dual form does not occur. Dvá appears only in the dual. Trí and catúr are declined irregularly:

Three

Four

Masculine

Neuter

Feminine

Masculine

Neuter

Feminine

Nominative

tráyas

trī́ṇi

tisrás

catvā́ras

catvā́ri

cátasras

Accusative

trīn

trī́ṇi

tisrás

catúras

catvā́ri

cátasras

Instrumental

tribhís

tisṛ́bhis

catúrbhis

catasṛ́bhis

Dative

tribhyás

tisṛ́bhyas

catúrbhyas

catasṛ́bhyas

Ablative

tribhyás

tisṛ́bhyas

catúrbhyas

catasṛ́bhyas

Genitive

triyāṇā́m

tisṛṇā́m

caturṇā́m

catasṛṇā́m

Locative

triṣú

tisṛ́ṣu

catúrṣu

catasṛ́ṣu

Computational linguistics

There have been suggestions to use Sanskrit as a metalanguage for knowledge representation in e.g. machine translation, and other areas of natural language processing because of its relatively high regular structure.[3] This is due to Classical Sanskrit being a regularized, prescriptivist form abstracted from the much more complex and richer Vedic Sanskrit. This leveling of the grammar of Classical Sanskrit began during the Brahmana phase, and had not yet completed by the time of Pāṇini, when the language had fallen out of popular use.[بحاجة لمصدر]